Quotes About Author

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.

I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.

Rule of law has prevailed over Obama's unconstitutional executive overreach.

NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.

Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to discriminate against communities of color and particularly African Americans.

The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.

I'm a nearly uncontrollable Geoff Dyer fan, who I think is one of the most comically brilliant writers today.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.

My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.

I wrote 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it's common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.

A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed by Spike Lee and starred Edward Norton.

John Peel made his reputation with his radio show and his record label, Dandelion, by championing the underdog.

But the underdog socialists' biggest problem isn't that they are wrong. They are not. Their biggest problem is that they're dull. Dull as a doorknob. They've got no story to tell; nor even the language to convey it in.

I'd rather have the underdog position than the favorite because I've been the underdog for a long time. I don't mind fighting that way.